Rock Review

Our students have been deeply engaged in our inquiry through mirroring the work of a geologist. After learning about the 3 different types of rocks through all of our scientific testing, most students are now fairly confident with being able to identify a rock based on certain characteristics! Currently students are making connections to these rocks while researching the rock cycle and creating their google slides presentation.  

Students have also been asking questions such as:

• How old are rocks?
• How can you tell how old rocks are?
• Are rocks older than dinosaurs?

Through the study of stratigraphy, students learned how to read like a geologist, and make meaning of how old rocks are through looking at a geological time line and a map of Canada showing the how old rocks are in different regions. Students were fascinated to find out that rocks are in fact older than dinosaurs!

Students were very excited when our resource teacher Ms. Mitschke brought us authentic fossils from the dinosaur era and before! We saw trilobites, ammonites, megaladon teeth, mosasaur teeth, and a variety of other plants/animals fossils. Students recorded all our questions as we prepared to meet our science educator from the Royal Tyrell Museum. 

Finally, our week ended with students being able to video conference with a science educator from the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller. She showed us different fossils, talked about what geologists and paleontologists do at the museum, and even tested our knowlege on rocks. Can you identitify what part of the fossil she is showing from her clues in the video below?